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condonable

adjective as in defensible

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Impetuous decisions and the rush of hormones that make rational choice a struggle are condonable when your mind and body are out of tune, hostage to hormones and fairly innocent to the ways of the world.

In other words, we were all scared spitless, so it’s ... understandable if not precisely condonable, that the CIA behaved in ways that betrayed our national values.

Torture and assassination when committed by the U.S. and Zionists or one of their henchmen is totally condonable.”

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If Blanco White, whose dying and hopeless sufferings excited the sympathy even of Cardinal Newman, had done the same thing, it would have been condonable.

If Summerlad's character as she read it had faults, if an occasional crudity flawed his finish, these things were held to be condonable in view of his youth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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